According to the documents leaked, the biological passport returned ‘likely doping, more data required, and likely medical condition’.

The athletes have since come out to defend their position that they have never failed dope test and they were living to the spirit of competing clean.

Athletics Kenya president Julius Tuwei also came to the defense of his runners by stating that, “athletes not to be distracted by the hacked list but instead continue with their training as they await further guidance from the IAAF.

Coe said they had talked in April about their system hacking after realising it during their routine security maintenance.

“We said this in April that our system had been hacked into and IAAF is unhappy that the documents leaked and we will remain vigilant to secure our systems,” Coe added.

“The athletes information regarding their biological passport should remain private and I have since apologized to those affected and I want to stress that by reading only a single information in the system doesn’t warrant a conclusion that one is doping,” said coe.